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Samsung, HTC already gearing up to sue Apple for the LTE iPhone 5

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Just as they had promised, Samsung are reportedly already gearing up to get all in Apple’s face. Samsung have previously stated that if Apple were to bring out an iPhone with 4G LTE capabilities, they would retaliate by launching a court-case against the Cupertino company.

After Apple won the case against Samsung in the US, Sammy were not happy. Samsung were ordered to pay Apple $1.049 billion in damages, which is not a small number by any means.

Lo and behold, as soon as Apple announced the new iPhone early this morning, Samsung have reportedly begun filing the papers to get this case going. Samsung owns 10% of all patents pertaining to LTE technologies, which would surely give them a good case.

According to IGN, it appears as though HTC will also be joining Samsung in the battle. It won’t be a joint court-case, but will surely put extra pressure on Apple to back off.

So, what will come of all of this? Well, as LTE technologies are said to be a standard and therefore bound by FRAND (fair, reasonable and non discriminatory) patenting, there might be limited ends. However, Samsung and HTC could force Apple to pay high licensing fees for having LTE radios in their devices. Or, there could be some sort of cross-licensing deal that could see an end to all these patent issues.

Source: IGN, The Korea Times
Via: Phandroid

Written by : Josh is the founder of Android Australia. He is an adamant vegan, tech enthusiast and psychology student. He is currently a Google Chromebook Product Specialist and a Student Ambassador. You should probably follow him at +Josh on Twitter or on his personal blog!
  • Cam Charles

    lol samsung will take some heat for this especially from apple fans, along the lines of “you dogged on apple for patent trolling now you do it” but id like to point out that this is a genuine tech related patent not a silly rounded corners rubbish, intact its so much a real patent that its in all likelihood going to fall under frand soon but until then this is exactly what the patent system is actually for, protect legitimate tech inventions

  • http://www.twitter.com/hyp3rstrike @hyp3rstrike

    Oh patents. They give me so many lols.

  • George Constantinopolous

    I think Samsung should be charging huge amounts for licensing to get back at what Apple has done to them re: rounded corners.

  • gurgle

    *Sigh*

    More truckloads of cash being spent on litigating patents instead of research, development and innovation. For fucks sake these companies need to sort out license deals and get over this shit.

    • http://androidaustralia.com.au Josh Berg

      You tell ‘em, gurgle. I’m hoping that all of this spins into one huge uncontrollable wheel of patent litigation, so that it is all forgotten and peaceful cross-licensing occurs.